NanoFab Equipment Management and Operations (NEMO) system streamlines shared facilities management via tool trainings, reservations, and lab communications.

An old patent from MIT Professor Bill Freeman inspired the new “Y-zipper,” a three-sided fastener that snaps gear, robots, and...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense...

By monitoring these chromosomal structures over many timescales, MIT researchers found that chromatin helps bring genes closer to their regulatory...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of...

When genes are transcribed, they suppress or activate their neighbors, coupling expression between the two genes.

Relaxor ferroelectrics have been used in electronics and sensors for decades, but the source of their unique properties was a...

Neural interaction with bacteria has important effects on animal brains. A new study investigates how neurons sense bacteria by revealing,...

New system at MIT.nano will support quantum technology research.

President Sally Kornbluth spoke in front of a packed crowd about growing challenges to the U.S. research ecosystem as funding...